St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-22
the East breed of horses unequaled in en-


are remarkably well satisfied with the veu-
ture. 1t is asserted that in no other country
have better results followed the growing of
sheep than i'll Dakota.
The absence of SwampS and damp, rainy
seasons gives security from the foot-rot, scab
and other diseases SO fatal to sheep.
In the Black Hills many ranches are de-
voted exclusively to sheep raising ard with
the most satisfactory results. The losses of
sheep in the territory during the past year
were 6 per cent, while in some of the states
the losses were recorded as high as III, IL
and l3 Der cent.
There has been more rapid increase of in
veStment in hogs, during the past year, than
in any other branch of stock-growing. From
Jan. /, 1856, to Jan. l, 1887, the increase i'll
the number of hogs on the farms OF the ter
ritory, exceeded 20 per cent, the result un-
doubtedly of the enlargement OF the area
planted to corn. In 1880, there were but
63,394 hogs in Dakota, number which has
increased to 427, 176 in 1886, or nearly 700
per cent.
Alreadp there are nine hog packing estab-
ishments i'll the territory, and this number
will be more than doubled before the lapse
of another year.
In 1880 Dakota produced 1000, ,955
pounds of butter, 80, ,437 pounds of cheese,
and Alb, I19 gallons of milk.
Five years afterwards, these amounts had
increased 10 10,S14,2 ,260 pounds of butter,
11S.557 pounds of cheese, and 1,S60, 1858
gallons of milk, while the number Of milch
COWS, on the farm, had increased almost 500
per cent.
The growing interest among the farmers,
In stock raising and their appreciation of the
profits to be derived from a herd OF cows,
has led to the establishment of great num-
Der of creameries and cheese factories in
different sections of the territory.
Twenty-eight creameries and ten cheese
factories in Dakota manufacture into
butter and cheese the milk and cream of
perhaps 10000 COWS, scattered among the
farmers of the territory. A creamery will
use, as Il general thing, the milk from a
thousand or more COWS, and increase the
value of mich COWS in its vicinity fully 25
per cent.
These factories send out cream wagons and
gather the cream and milk over wide area
of country, paying the farmer for it price
equivalent TO about shilling pound for
butter.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
Considerable space is devoted to d discus
sion of this subject. He gives detailed
description of the duties of the board and the
successful efforts made to suppress and keep
out ali diseases, except in isolated cases. DR..
c. j. Anoway, of Grand Forks, was selected
for veterinarian. the duties of which he as
sumed on March %, 1885. During the past
six months the most important portions of
the territory have been visited i'll person by
the territorial veterinarian, and auxiliary
Offices established presided over by local dep
uties provided for by the act
In a few cases considerable opposition was
experienced by the officers in the perform
ance of their duties, owing mainly TO there
being no indemnity to the owner for the loss
of animals actually diseased. A better ac-
quaintance with the law, and more thor
ough realization of its ultimate benefits are
rapidly dispelling opposition or interference
Of any kind.
The creation of this Office has been pro-
ductiye of much good. even in the short time
that has elapsed since its inception; its bene-
fits being already perceptible i'll q marked de-
gree to the agricultural classes OF the terri
tory.
Owing to the large area TO be covered, the
small number of deputies Qive) provided by
law, have found some difficulty in accom-
plishing the work required.
GREETED that the most insidious and
destructive of equine diseases, viz:
CHAMBERS. has obtained considerable
foothold among our horses. Stringent and
effective measures are in operation. and
whenever the maladay is encountered it is
srlmmarily dealt with. 1t is safe TO say that
the prevalence of this disease is consider
ably on the increase and the work of stamp
ing it out is being pushed rapidly and effect.
lively.
MINERAL RESOURCES.
We have at present but a faint idea of the
real extent and Importance of DakOta's min
eral wealth, owing to the lack of government
surveys and the comparatively short time
the territory has been settled.
The average DakOtan has been engaged in
the work of earning home, and in efforts to
bring the surroundings up to a standard of
civilization paramount to that of the locality
from whence he came He has had but little
time to study out what might be hid away be-
meath the earth's surface. However, enough
has already been discovered land these dis
coveries have been more i'll the way of an ac-
cident rather Than the result of any system
attic or learned inyeStigation), upon which to
found reasonable prediction that Nature
has distributed the valuable and useful min
erals, throughout the length and breadth of
this vast territory. with the same bountiful
hand that has provided the richest of soils
bfni pli 70 in an I,
world.
Deposits of coal, petroleum, salt, tin, cop
per, lead, marble, granite, mica, abestos, pot
ter's clay besides the precious metals,-in
fact almost every one of earths treasures, SO
far as discovered and utilized by science, are
known to exist within the boundaries of
Dakota. But up to this tipe only the pre-
cious metals, gold and silver. have been sue
cesSful in weaning the inhabitants from such
pursuits as go hand in hand with the devel-
oPment of purely agricultural community.
The recent discoveries of wells of natural
gas, and the completion of the many lines of
railways projected in every direction, which
will bring within reasonable contiguity the
immense coal fields and valuable mineral de-
posts OF the West and the markets of the
East. mnst certainly result in the rapid de-
yelepment of manufacturing interests in the
territory.
COAL IN DAKOTA.
The whole country west of the Missouri
river, and large part of the surface of North
Dakota, is underlaid with deposit of Ignite
coal, which crops out in many places in
veins as large as eighteen feet i'll thickness.
This Ignite, or brown coal, is of soft va
riety, excellent for heating purposes, and has
been tested and found to possess gas making
qualities, superior to almost any coal discov-
cred on the continent 1t is defined by min
eraiogists to be one Of the most recent geo.
logical formations, Post Tartiary, more re-
cent than the anthracite or bituminous coal
of the carboniferous period.
While inferior to anthracite, or the best
qualities of bituminOus coal, Ignite burns
readily and furnishes the settlers of prairie
country with that inestimable boon, cheap
domestic fuel. At present, because of the
lack of transportation facilities, only the out
the supply simply, of the settlers
of the immediate neighborhood. The
completion of the north and south roads
already in course of construction, will place
the immense coal fields of the northern part
of the territory within easy reach of every
village. and good quality of soft coal can
be had as low as 81 per ton, and, even in the
most distant towns, not exceeding $3.50
per ton. Already along the Northern Pa
cific railway at Sims, in Morton county, Dick
1nson, Ill Stark county, and Little Missouri
III Billings county, coal mining is carried on
quite extensively and thousands of tons are
shipped as far east as jamestown. 1t is esti-
mated that, during the past winter 10000
tons were shipped into the city of Bismarck
alone, where it is retailed for $3.50, after
paying tribute of 81 per ton to the only
railway line thus far reaching into the coal
fields.
Recent railroad development will result, at
an early day, i'll opening to market the extern
sive coal areas surrounding the Devils Lake
Turtle Mountains and Mouse River counties,
as also of Mclean. Mercer and Emmons
counties, which contain some of the richest
deposits OF coal yet found but are too dis
tant from present railway facilities On the
north, south and west of the Black hills are
hundreds of thousands of acres of coal, in
Ylens from five to twenty feet in thickess en-
tirely undeveloped owing to the distance
from railways and the cost of transportation
The great Sioux Indian reservation, if opened
to settlement, would undoubtedly prove to
be one of the richest coal fields of the terri
tory.
Marble, granite, stone, quarzite, jasper. etc.
found principally at Sioux Falls, Dell